This paper discusses parasynthesis, also known as circumfixation, in Degema. It highlights the fact that circumfixes are controversial not only because of the possibility to analyze them as discontinuous units consisting ...

This paper examines the patterns of language use and language preference of some
children aged 6–15 and their parents at the University of Botswana. The results indicate
that the majority of the children speak Setswana ...

This article argues that greeting among the Kerebe is a
phenomenological project of everydayness in which the concept of being
manifests itself in a dialogic manner. This is revealed through the four variables
on which ...

The growing body of literature authored by women in Africa and the African Diaspora over the past four decades has been accompanied by
vigorous debates out of which has evolved a body of theories pertaining
to African ...

This paper aims at establishing and discussing the strategies for naming tourist sites in the languages of Botswana using a descriptive approach. In addition, the paper attempts a classification of these tourist sites in ...

This paper examines how place is represented in two Botswana novels, Far
and Beyon’ by Unity Dow and The Victims by Mositi Torontle. Conventional
notions of rural as the “authentic” experience that is threatened by ...